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C 16 RF & AL. 1865
Hd Qrs. Post Memphis Tenn.
June 24.1865

Col E. says not

Chaplain A L
Brig Genl to
the Adjt General USA

Requests to be assigned to some position in Freedmen's Bureau  Recommended by Adj't Gen'l U.S.A. in endorsement

file
Recd Bureau FR&AL June 30/65

1865

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Respectfully referred to Major General Howard
Brig Genl Cheltain is a most humane gentleman, and the very best General for the command of Colored troops under my orders on the Mississippi

I know of no better person for assignment to the duty he seeks, and I should be pleased if he could be gratified

L Thomas
Adjt Genl

Washington DC
June 30.1865 

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